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Originally Posted by Hammock Parties
The article is right.
There were ZERO screens called. The ONLY sideways pass was Alex taking a checkdown. And Alex had open receivers down the field.
Go look at the All 22 yourself if you doubt so.
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Alex Smith is always going to do what Alex Smith does when those plays are called in that situation, especially when his blankie is sidelined with a concussion. So why put the ball in his hands in the first place, knowing as we allllll do, that the first half was the aberration, that he almost never plays like that for four quarters.
That is why the problem was the play calling. Those plays were never going to be executed by him at that point. So they never should have been called in the first place.
At the end of the day it's all Andy Reid. He's the reason we have Smith in the first place, and he's the one with more than a decade's history of abandoning the run game in the most meaningful and damaging situations.
The only way we ever get beyond his limitations as a HC is if Mahomes turns into Aaron Rodgers. Because Andy is a bizarro-world passing-obsessed Marty Schottenheimer and the only thing that can overcome that is the arrival of a Joe Montana level talent behind center.
Coaching lost that game and no amount of sports blogging is going to change my mind about that, although I enjoy the effort.